Crafty CTO

MAY 29, 2023

As Ott says, I already knew that blogging – and having a personal website in general – is a superpower … I had heard before of Vannevar Bush’s groundbreaking essay “As We May Think” that directly inspired the invention of hypertext by Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart, which, in turn, had a huge influence on the WorldWideWeb project.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Twenty-two marketing experts took the stage to give new solutions to old challenges and actionable solutions to new ones—not to mention the food, people, games, swag and after-parties that made it the best CTAConf yet. Already interested in CTAConf 2019? It’s tougher than ever and what used to work, doesn’t anymore. Speechless.

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AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Content Marketing 73

SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. This podcast is an excerpt from Eric’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. Harry Stebbings. Yep, we did that. Kind of solve the problem.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up. Gaetan Gache t: The fact that you’re new is actually becomes a negative. And we were acting as the CTO of Gap and whatever, another title.

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SaaStr

JULY 13, 2023

It’s too much to learn on the fly for most new VPs of Sales. So, as leaders, you have to start from scratch and hire new people who weren’t trained in horrible ways or hire people who have been around long enough to know that sales are hard and deals can take six months to close. They wanted a one-call close.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

We’re doing it SaaStr Europa bigger and better in June 2019. I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. Key takeaways: M&A allows you to acquire talent you didn’t have before. Grab your tickets! ??.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Even outside of the agency that I started in, just like keeping a broad network and talking to people about how they do things, what they learned and sharing your lessons as well which was one of the reasons for why I started my own blog, the newsletter, that was always very, very big for me. And then I also touched on the newsletter itself.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Yeah, I’ve blogged about this one a few times, so. QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch. New category. So he’s the CTO? QUESTION 9: Comfortable with a new VP of Sales coming in and using an outside coach.

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Upscope

JANUARY 5, 2020

Related : 10 Companies Show you their Go-to-Market Strategies Also see : 3 Copywriting Secrets for Ranking on Google And : Using Jobs to be Done Method to Explain What Your Company Does Contents Skip this blog post and just read the book Why positioning matters What is positioning? Is sending and receiving mails a new shiny technology?

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Strategy Marketing Sales Hiring Engineering 128

SaaS Onboarding Emails

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

create their first project CTA: Upload a Video/ Make a New One/ Borrow one from us Strengths: Whereas the poem welcome email introduced the brand at large, this second Day 1 email jumps into the task at hand. It’s a new world for Wistia customers, and examples help show them what’s possible. It’s a new CTA.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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